Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-13

university be published in the Spanish language
and freely circulated throughout the fifteen sister
Yale, which has ever been the school of Amert.
can statesmen, should be foremost I'm this new de-
parture toward an American continental policy.
lApplause.l
FELLcrrous PoErIcAL TRIBUTE
Col l. Edwards Clarke, OF the bureau OF educa-
ton, responded to the last toast 'the Harvard
poets tribute to Yale"
He said: Mr.. President. All men know OF the
glorious commemoration at Cambridge last sum-
anniversary. Some OF those who now hear me
were listeners there to the wisdom, wit and elo-
Sne I Of Il LSwelrs pregnant words and n Were
Oliver Wendell Holmes to whom, while he owes
allegiance TO Harvard, all men, wherever the
wit and learning, pay grateful homage.
We, who were not so fortunate as TO SIT within
sound OF the voices OF those distinguished exem-
words in the December number OF the Atlantic
Permit here MI. President to digress moment to
sa yGup attention to
OF the Magazine, since we are met,
on this occasion, to emphasize the
university" This paper was written by my late
Elisha milford, author Of the '.Nation,' who, at
the time OF its reception, was the youngest gradu
ate upon whom our Alma Mater had ever conferred
the degree of LID You Will findin his noble words
true Gniversity while Viii his OPENING a pfctare OF
class recitation OF our time wildly recalls the
scenes and frfen.ls OF long ago! Those scenes ana
those friendships just now SO eleQuenty portrayed
by Senator Gibson.
And now, Mr.. President, have to say that, in
distant sort OF way, have had reason TO Know
something OF the feelings that Newton must have
had when the dog "Dtomed" made himself tmmor-
tai, and that Carlyle felt when his manuscript Of
the French Revolution was burptI
had been struck with a compliment paid by
Holmes to Yale, and had written a few verses
ago, to my dismay, discovered that my only copy
had vanished! / have raked over the ashes OF
memory for the few lines now read but you can
never know the melody OF those lost linesi
"a BRIGHTER RADIANCE GIIDs TIE ROOFS OF YALE"
-Holnes' Commemoration Poem,
The Laureate thus, on Harvards festal day,
Paying in flowing verse, his votive lay
Where Learning earliest reared her sacred shrine.
Gave to her first born child, q tribute line.
So when the poet, in spontaneous verse;
Unconscious speaks a blessing or curse,
He Oft controlled by power beyond intent
1ntones q blessing, when ban was meant.
Thus, once, of old, by power divine enforced,
The Alien prophet blesses Israels host!
Think not, in any wise mean to say,
The kindly Doctor cherished thoughts, that day,
That held for others. any wish of ill.,
Whether Yales fair plain Princetons sunlit hill
I only mean. that better than he knew,
The worthy Doctor voiced with accents true
The love her children, twho shall never fsil)
Bear, in their heart of hearts for DEAR OLD MALE:
The sons of YALE that day. at Harvard held high place.
Rejoicedi in all that gave the occasion grace,
But whispered oft. their well-re Horace DER,
"Mster pulchrs" SEQ Fila pulchrior'!
The poem was received with great applause
The gathering then after singing Aud Lang Syne
the feeling Of having passed an evening OF rare en-
jOymeht.